UnReidable Chapter 41 – October 2011: Austin, Texas
There are not many moments in my life when I can specifically recall the minute where something happened and everything changed. But at 11:47pm, on Wednesday October 26th, 2011, our daughter was born. For a while we didn’t think it would happen. We actually started trying to get pregnant about three years earlier while we […]
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UnReidable Chapter 40 – October 2000: Austin, Texas
There is a framed photograph on my desk of me in Austin 16 years ago, surrounded by my best friends from high school and university. I’ve just lost a game of soccer, I’m hot, I’m jet-lagged, and we are all exhausted. But I’m so very happy. When I first lived in Austin, in 1995, I […]
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UnReidable Chapter 39 – October 2016: Chicago, Illinois
I’ve been trying to write another chapter these past few weeks but I just can’t do it. I’m obsessed with the Chicago Cubs’ run to the baseball World Series. My Chicago Cubs. And so I’ve realized that the only way I’ll get a chapter done right now, is just to write about the Cubs. The thing is though, […]
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UnReidable Chapter 38 – September 2007: Brooklyn, New York
It was two weeks before the big trial was due to start, and Reid was about to meet with his expert for the first time in midtown Manhattan. It was a warm Friday evening in August, which meant that most other New York professionals were already at their summer homes in the Hamptons. Such luxuries […]
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UnReidable Chapter 37 – September 2014: Edinburgh, Scotland
In September 2014, I was in Scotland as the country voted to decide whether it should be independent from the United Kingdom. It was an unforgettable, inspirational, and ultimately heartbreaking experience. I’ve written a lot in the past few years about my support for an independent Scotland, and how I reached that decision. It’s an […]
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UnReidable Chapter 36 – September 2005: Austin, Texas
I have to come realize that I have lived most of my life under the pressure of self-imposed deadlines. This writing project is a perfect example. I didn’t have to do this. But for some reason I set myself the ludicrous goal of writing a chapter a week for a year. I’ve enjoyed doing it, mostly, […]
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UnReidable Chapter 35 – September 2003: Austin, Texas
Very few people thought that it was a good idea for me to get married so young to my first real girlfriend, after we had only been together for 6 months. While ultimately they might have been proved right, I don’t regret it. It didn’t work out but I’m a better person for it, and […]
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UnReidable Chapter 34 – August 2015: Austin, Texas
Sometimes you just need to be yourself. You can’t be no one else. Like when you are flying faster than the speed of sound and you really want a gin and tonic. It was Liam Gallagher of Oasis who first said those poetic words, or words to that effect, and I never really understood them, […]
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UnReidable Chapter 33 – August 1995: Austin, Texas
The screenplay I wrote in Australia essentially starts in August 1995 when I first arrived in Austin. It is based on the tumultuous year I had while studying abroad in Austin, and it’s mostly true. So I’m going to use some of that screenplay to tell the story of that period. Reading the screenplay this week for the […]
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